Global Patent Index - EP 0817027 A3

EP 0817027 A3 19990331 - Transport independent invocation and servant interfaces that permit both typecode interpreted and compiled marshaling

Title (en)

Transport independent invocation and servant interfaces that permit both typecode interpreted and compiled marshaling

Title (de)

Transportunabhängige Anruf- und Dienstschnittstellen, die die Marshalling von integrierten Type-Codes sowie kompilierten Code erlauben

Title (fr)

Interfaces d'appel et de service indépendants du mode de transmission, qui permettent à la fois la transformation du code interprété et compilé

Publication

EP 0817027 A3 19990331 (EN)

Application

EP 97303357 A 19970516

Priority

US 67318196 A 19960626

Abstract (en)

[origin: US6167458A] Data structures, methods, and devices for facilitating servant invocation in a distributed client-server based object oriented operating system are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, descriptor data structures, which contain a typecode indicator, a marshaling function identifier, and an unmarshaling function identifier, are used to enable modules of application code to be shared between different objects, thereby facilitating servant invocation by increasing the amount of commonized code in the operating system. In another aspect of the invention, a server invocation object is used in the execution of a method call. In still another aspect of the invention, a commonized code base is used to process typecode interpreted and compiled calls to a server process.

IPC 1-7

G06F 9/46

IPC 8 full level

G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G06F 9/548 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

  • [A] EP 0643349 A1 19950315 - SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC [US]
  • [A] "REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL STUB SIZE REDUCTION TECHNIQUE - COMBINING PARAMETER CODE", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 36, no. 9B, 1 September 1993 (1993-09-01), pages 351/352, XP000397180
  • [A] "CALLOS2W", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 39, no. 4, 1 April 1996 (1996-04-01), pages 91 - 96, XP000587433

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

US 6167458 A 20001226; DE 69734175 D1 20051020; DE 69734175 T2 20060504; EP 0817027 A2 19980107; EP 0817027 A3 19990331; EP 0817027 B1 20050914; JP H1063506 A 19980306; US 6032199 A 20000229; US 6389484 B1 20020514

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 17840598 A 19981024; DE 69734175 T 19970516; EP 97303357 A 19970516; JP 17076597 A 19970626; US 45451499 A 19991206; US 67318196 A 19960626